عنوان

A Gift of One Eunuch and Four Slave Boys:

شماره

LA118930

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

A Gift of One Eunuch and Four Slave Boys:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

P.Cair.Zen. I 59076 and Historical Construction

نام نخستين پديدآور

Anna Krautbauer, Stephen Llewelyn, Blake Wassell, et al.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

P.Cair.Zen. I 59076 is a letter sent by Toubias, the head of an influential Jewish family in the Transjordan, to Apollonios, an important official of the Ptolemaic king. It concerns the dispatch of a eunuch and four boys to him. The article focuses on the role of the eunuch. It critiques the accepted view that he was the boys' tutor arguing instead that he was of value in his own right as a personal attendant in an elite household. The role of eunuchs more generally is discussed to bolster the argument. If correct, there must have been a perceived demand for such persons in royal and elite households. This in turn has implications for the possible fate of the four boys, who are all prepubescent. Though the papyrus illustrates the means by which the Tobiad family was able to maintain its powerful position in the Ptolemaic territory of Coele-Syria, the article highlights two responsibilities of modern historiography, both to appreciate the great worth of the Zenon archive and to carefully remember the marginalized of antiquity. P.Cair.Zen. I 59076 is a letter sent by Toubias, the head of an influential Jewish family in the Transjordan, to Apollonios, an important official of the Ptolemaic king. It concerns the dispatch of a eunuch and four boys to him. The article focuses on the role of the eunuch. It critiques the accepted view that he was the boys' tutor arguing instead that he was of value in his own right as a personal attendant in an elite household. The role of eunuchs more generally is discussed to bolster the argument. If correct, there must have been a perceived demand for such persons in royal and elite households. This in turn has implications for the possible fate of the four boys, who are all prepubescent. Though the papyrus illustrates the means by which the Tobiad family was able to maintain its powerful position in the Ptolemaic territory of Coele-Syria, the article highlights two responsibilities of modern historiography, both to appreciate the great worth of the Zenon archive and to carefully remember the marginalized of antiquity.

تاريخ نشر

2014

توصيف ظاهري

305-325

عنوان

Journal for the Study of Judaism

شماره جلد

45/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0631

اصطلاح موضوعی

eunuch

اصطلاح موضوعی

papyrology

اصطلاح موضوعی

slavery

اصطلاح موضوعی

Tobiad family

اصطلاح موضوعی

Zenon

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Anna Krautbauer

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Blake Wassell

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Stephen Llewelyn

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700631-12340058

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y